Canadian CANNAINVESTOR Magazine December 2018 | Page 52

LOUIS KYRON

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BY Matt MaurEr, LLB

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Louis, what a pleasure that I get to interview you. Is any topic off limits today?

The pleasure is all mine and as for limits ... just the sky.

Can you tell me what life was like before CannaInvestor and how you came to be the Canadian editor?

My father had an extended stay in an area hospital and I visited daily. He had dementia ...he also had prostate cancer. Long before his passing, I pledged I would never put my family through the stress of caring for me should I ever fall prey to such an awful condition.

During his hospital stays ....I spent every night sitting in his room by his side often for hours and typically he was sound asleep. I spent that time investigating and researching prospective technologies, trends, and breakthroughs in these terrible life destroying diseases whether it be cancer or Alzheimer's or Vascular Dementia. Because I lost my mother years before to Cancer (well ... let me stop and restart ... she was to be discharged the next morning after a successful surgery.

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